Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April…
Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates. Mounir Idrassi and Jason Donenfeld, the developers behind VeraCrypt and WireGuard respectively, both recently reported that Microsoft locked them out of their developer accounts…
Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who’s worth fully compromising. Security researcher Haifei Li, founder of the sandbox-based exploit detection system EXPMON, said the campaign uses a malicious PDF that runs as soon as it’s opened,…
In celebration of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie coming to theaters, Nintendo is making it a little cheaper to get both Super Mario Galaxy games when you buy a $449.99 Nintendo Switch 2 console. Now through May 9th, you can buy a Switch 2 with Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 for $499.99…
Vibe coding works. I wish it didn’t. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone. Earlier this year, I surrendered, bought a $20/month Claude subscription, and vibe coded a web app for monitoring news feeds. It’s been an enlightening but uncomfortable experience. There…
For years, even decades, virtually everyone in the United States had the same phone. Nobody really thought about it, it didn’t even matter what it was called – it was just The Phone. Well, The Phone was called the Western Electric 500, and when landline phones ruled the world, the Western Electric 500 ruled the…
We spend a lot of time at The Verge waxing poetic about the latest gadgets, but sometimes it’s the last-gen devices from several years ago that offer the better value. The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite is a great case in point — especially since you can grab it at Woot in refurbished condition with lockscreen ads,…
RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year, with models coming from all the manufacturers, and the first one of 2026 is here — the Hisense UR9. It’s the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms, and it’s a step above the traditional…
OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold. The US large language model (LLM) pioneer unveiled its plans for Stargate UK last September, to coincide with a state visit by President Trump….
A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a “major outage” across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers. The disruption, flagged on Chevin’s public status page, aligns with an email sent to customers and seen by The Register in which the…